Patagonia Bioenergía, that heads at national level the investigation of the Jatropha, is developing alternative oily cultures – nonfoods- as the Jatropha curcas, whose oil will replace the soybean oil for the biodiesel production in the medium and long term. In this sense, it owns a breeding ground of jatropha plantlets production in the province of Formosa, in the department of Pilcomayo. Leer más »

Yucatan would be leader in the biodiesel production.Â

Merida will be the headquarters of a meeting of 3 thousand investigators.Â

Yucatan will become shortly in the tip of national lance for the biodiesel production, due to the strong interest of three companies in sowing hundred of hectares of the plant Jatropha curcas or sikilté, said doctor Pedro Brajcich Gallegos, general director of the National Institute of Forest, Agricultural and Cattle Investigations (Inifap). Leer más »

JATROPHA CURCAS, ENERGY AND SOCIAL CULTIVATION

The Second Monographic International Conference on Jatropha Curcas, held during the past 14th and 15th of May in Madrid, fulfilled its objective of showing the current state of this important energy cultivation. Of the hand of Global Energy, the appointment gathered ten important experts at world level with more than 150 conference members interested in the production and commercialization possibilities of the Jatropha Curcas. The reports also highlighted the important social side of this cultivation. Leer más »

It will begin the development of jatropha plantations, cultivation used for the generation of this type of fuels non contaminating (biodiesel), for what will invest, in a first stage, around 300 thousand Eurus. Leer más »

FORMOSA (From our correspondent). – Directive of the Lloyds Bank and an investor from the United States visited this province recently, interested in acquiring lands to produce jatropha, a pluriannual crop that doesn’t impose the necessity of recurrent replanting.Â

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